Plant Pimpinella anisum (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Anise; Sweet Cumin

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
TRANS-ANETHOLE	8	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	825000.0	0.68	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-ANETHOLE	8	Plant	14000.0	54000.0	2.44	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-ANETHOLE	8	Seed	14000.0	126000.0	1.12	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-ANETHOLE	8	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	752000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-ANETHOLE	8	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	875000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIFERONE	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIFERONE	22	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIFERONE	22	Tissue Culture	not available	5000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIPRENINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIPRENINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITAMIN-K-1	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITAMIN-K-1	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITAMIN-K-1	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Seed	95000.0	110000.0	-0.45	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
XANTHOTOXIN	43	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Fruit	not available	59.0	0.86	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Seed	not available	59.0	0.39	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiakathisic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic	3	Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiallergenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergic	9	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialopecic	5	Martindale's 28th
Antialzheimeran	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran?	4	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic	3	Martindale's 29th
Antianginal	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiangiogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antianorectic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antianorexic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antianxiety	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiapertif	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiapoplectic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiappetant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarachidonate	1	Duke, 1992 *